Mainstream Media Writer Resigns After Being Exposed Plagiarizing

Lizzie Crocker resigned from The Daily Beast following revelations that she plagiarized material.

The Daily Caller reported: A reporter for The Daily Beast who resigned after getting caught blatantly plagiarizing an article appears to have broken journalism’s cardinal rule more than once.

Lizzie Crocker resigned from the left-leaning publication after she was revealed to have copied and pasted several paragraphs from a Weekly Standard piece into her own article without citation or attribution. In a statement announcing Crocker’s resignation on Sunday, Daily Beast editor in chief John Avlon said that an internal investigation revealed that Crocker’s plagiarism was limited to the one instance.​

But that doesn’t seem to be the case.

A Daily Caller review of Crocker’s recent articles turned up at least one other instance where the reporter appeared to pass off another writer’s work as her own, without any attribution. In an article published by The Daily Beast on Nov. 19, Crocker repeatedly used identical or noticeably similar language as an NBC News opinion column by Alexandra Tracy-Ramirez from two days before.​

The Daily Beast deleted the article and replaced it with an editor’s note after a request for comment from The Daily Caller that outlined the similarities in the two articles. An archived version of the article can be seen here. Read more.

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